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screwregon Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source

Any chance of publishing the algorighm details? The main header (pls.hpp) mentions some links to private google docs.

screwregon Show HN: Forma – An efficient vector-graphics renderer

Please, write more about the implementation! There is so little information on this topic in general.

Like, how does sorting pixel segments result in coverage masks? Is there an accumulator somewhere that isn't mentioned?

Stripping copyrights is a great way to start a project: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/commit/6009cdd6cbdcf...

screwregon Rendering floating numbers: advances in problems you didn’t know you had (2011)

Actually, there's been another advance since Ryu: Schubfach by Raffaello Giulietti and its optimized derivative Dragonbox by Junekey Jeon. Here's a cool page with implementations and a benchmark: https://github.com/abolz/Drachennest/

screwregon Speculation in JavaScriptCore

I'd love to see a post like this on instruction selection.